Inspired by the excellent Fight the Power hip-hop tournament and fueled by my developing addiction to writing trash, I am announcing the Chuck Berry Memorial rock music tournament.

The tentative distribution is as follows:

1 1950-19593 1960-19693 1970-19793 1980-19893 1990-19993 2000-20174 common link tossups from across the decades, culture, or additional questions from the decades0 tossups on the Lumineers

Similar to Fight the Power (which can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=18915), there will be 20 tossups per round, with powers and super powers. Many questions will not fit squarely into a time period. A mix between independent and alternative critical favourites and classic rock radio staples will be attempted.

The packets well be available sometime in the summer, ideally for a Canadian site and for other Side Event weekends. I am aiming to produce 8 packets.

EDIT: I have packetized 7 packets with a few questions left over for tiebreakers if necessary. This will be played the weekend of the ICT mirror in Toronto and is available for (free) mirrors that weekend or afterwards. I will wait to post the packets until after all the side event weekends.

Last edited by ErikC on Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:12 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Erik ChristensenUniversity of Waterloo - School of Planning Class of '18I write trashDefending VETO top scorer

GIven that I never used a number of questions I wrote for this:, I'd be happy to contribute any or all of the questions that weren't used at 2013 CO Trash. I've probably got enough tossups to make a 2+ packets. If you want, I could packetize what I have and send it along.

Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:GIven that I never used a number of questions I wrote for this:, I'd be happy to contribute any or all of the questions that weren't used at 2013 CO Trash. I've probably got enough tossups to make a 2+ packets. If you want, I could packetize what I have and send it along.

That would be great. I'd prefer to packetize them myself so I could get the balance I am trying for, but if you would like to play this tournament I could include your packets seperately. Send them to echriste@uwaterloo.ca

Progcon wrote:My only question: will there be questions on metal? Quizbowl seems to overlook the genre which sucks because that's all I listen to.

Yes, there will be. I'm not planning on a sub distribution but there will be an effort to include metal bands old and new (even if you can't use lyric clues for Norwegian black metal!).

Erik ChristensenUniversity of Waterloo - School of Planning Class of '18I write trashDefending VETO top scorer

An update: this event is over 50% done for my 8 pack target and may be longer if I find the time to write additional packets. This will likely be played at the Second Summer Open side event weekend in Ontario.

Erik ChristensenUniversity of Waterloo - School of Planning Class of '18I write trashDefending VETO top scorer

I have material for 7 packets as of now, so I can say that this will be ready for the tentative MacVanity weekend of June 24 (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19881). I have updated the distribution listed in the first post, but I may change it later. I will edit them after the weekend and they will be available for mirrors shortly after.

Erik ChristensenUniversity of Waterloo - School of Planning Class of '18I write trashDefending VETO top scorer

Sorry, I had neglected to announce here the change of plans. This is going to be played at the ICT Mirror in Toronto on the July 29th weekend. There are 7 packets.

Now that I have finalized the date this set is open to free mirrors on the July 29th weekend or later. Email me at echriste@uwaterloo.edu.ca if you wish to mirror this event. I am delaying uploading the packets to the archive because of this.

Erik ChristensenUniversity of Waterloo - School of Planning Class of '18I write trashDefending VETO top scorer

Any chance of running this earlier than 8 pm EST? That's like 2 am over here so it'd be almost impossible for me to play then. I'm fine with staying up and not using a mic to not bother the other people in my apartment.

I know I'm asking a lot for one person.

Harris BunkerGrosse Pointe North High School '15Michigan State University 2015-MSU Academic Competition Club President 2016-

Progcon wrote:Any chance of running this earlier than 8 pm EST? That's like 2 am over here so it'd be almost impossible for me to play then. I'm fine with staying up and not using a mic to not bother the other people in my apartment.

I know I'm asking a lot for one person.

On a weekend I could. I've edited the poll to have options for 3pm on the weekends.

Erik ChristensenUniversity of Waterloo - School of Planning Class of '18I write trashDefending VETO top scorer